%0 Journal Article
%A Brenner, Hermann
%A Holleczek, Bernd
%A Schöttker, Ben
%T Vitamin D Insufficiency and Deficiency and Mortality from Respiratory Diseases in a Cohort of Older Adults: Potential for Limiting the Death Toll during and beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic?
%J Nutrients
%V 12
%N 8
%@ 2072-6643
%C Basel
%I MDPI
%M DKFZ-2020-01745
%P 2488
%D 2020
%Z #EA:C070#LA:C070#
%X The COVID-19 pandemic goes along with increased mortality from acute respiratory disease. It has been suggested that vitamin D3 supplementation might help to reduce respiratory disease mortality. We assessed the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency, defined by 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) blood levels of 30-50 and <30 nmol/L, respectively, and their association with mortality from respiratory diseases during 15 years of follow-up in a cohort of 9548 adults aged 50-75 years from Saarland, Germany. Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency were common (44
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:32824839
%R 10.3390/nu12082488
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/157657